{"id":234,"date":"2019-05-17T10:51:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T10:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scm.keele.ac.uk\/staff\/stan\/?p=234"},"modified":"2019-05-17T10:51:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T10:51:05","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-discover-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/17\/what-does-it-mean-to-discover-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to discover numbers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an article recently that commented on research by Nasr et al (<a href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/5\/5\/eaav7903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>) that showed a machine learning engine discovering a sense of number: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/ai-develops-human-like-number-sense-taking-us-a-step-closer-to-building-machines-with-general-intelligence-116820\">AI develops human-like number sense \u2013 taking us a step closer to building machines with general intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This somehow led to a radio interview on the topic on BBC national radio&#8211;my first one, hence my slightly shaky start! My 98 year-old grandmother&#8217;s comment was &#8220;It&#8217;s all about apples!?&#8221; .. take from that what you will. Thanks a million to my good friend <a href=\"https:\/\/kelceyswain.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelcey Swain<\/a> for chopping up the audio.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-234-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/adamInterview.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/adamInterview.mp3\">https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/adamInterview.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an article recently that commented on research by Nasr et al (link) that showed a machine learning engine discovering a sense of number: AI develops human-like number sense \u2013 taking us a step closer to building machines with general intelligence. This somehow led to a radio interview on the topic on BBC national&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/17\/what-does-it-mean-to-discover-numbers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What does it mean to discover numbers?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","iawp_total_views":23,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"as","author_link":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/author\/stan\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinemachines.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}